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Sullivan, the first American woman to walk in space, recounts how she and other astronauts, engineers, and scientists launched, rescued, repaired, and maintained Hubble, the most productive observatory ever built.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Along the way, Sullivan chronicles her early life as a \"Sputnik Baby,\" her path to NASA through oceanography, and her initiation into the space program as one of \"thirty-five new guys.\" (She was also one of the first six women to join NASA's storied astronaut corps.) She describes in vivid detail what liftoff feels like inside a spacecraft (it's like \"being in an earthquake and a fighter jet at the same time\"), shows us the view from a spacewalk, and recounts the temporary grounding of the shuttle program after the Challenger disaster.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Sullivan explains that \"maintainability\" was designed into Hubble, and she describes the work of inventing the tools and processes that made on-orbit maintenance possible. 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Sullivan describes how she and other astronauts, engineers, and scientists launched, rescued, repaired, and maintained The Hubble Space Telescope, the most productive observatory ever built. The now 30-year-old telescope has revolutionized our understanding of the universe. It has, among many other achievements, revealed thousands of galaxies in what seemed to be empty patches of sky; transformed our knowledge of black holes; found dwarf planets with moons orbiting other stars; and measured precisely how fast the universe is expanding. 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